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>If ranged is complete shit aside from resonance weapons I will SEETHE eternal. I don't care about your fancy technomagic mumbo jumbo. If my natural shotgun pointblank is weaker than smacking them with a big metal stick it's over.
I was in cbt1 and 2 and the only viable ranged weapon user was Hilda with her signature grenade launcher but she was one of the best characters.
One of her abilities is that she instantly reloads her ranged weapon when she dashes. Her grenade launcher is very strong but has like a 10 second reload so she's literally the only person who can use it.
There were some other decent-ish ranged weapons but they got heavily outclassed by the stronger DPS skills/resonance weapons.
Melee is not very good against single targets because the way melee works is that you have your charged attack which deals more damage depending on your combo level (a maximum of 120, I think, but I don't remember for sure) and that charged attack is your only source of real damage with a melee weapon. So the idea is that you build up your combo on trash mobs and then kill elite enemies with your charged attack but against bosses, melee weapons are shit because you can't build your combo level.